Reading passages on illness and health

Period 4. Reading passages on Illness and health
A. Aims and Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Read for main ideas and specific information about illness and health
+ Enrich their vocabulary about illness and health
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: handouts, textbook and pieces of papers.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time
5’

Teacher’s activities
Warm – up:
- Ask sts list as many illness/ diseases they know
as possible

- Lead in new lesson
7’

15’

Sts’ activities
- Do the task
* Suggested answers:
- Cancer
- Heart – attack
- Headache/ backache/
toothache
- Mealses/ Rabies

Pre – reading
- Instruct sts some new words
- Listen and take note
1. anecdotal (a.) : chuyện vặt
2. pulse rate (n.p): nhịp đập (tim)
3. asthma (n): bệnh hen
4. symptom (n): triệu chứng
5. panic attack (n.p): sự hoảng loạn
6. overreact (v): phản ứng dữ dội
7. moody (a): tính khí thất thường
8. Alcoholism (n): nghiện rượu
While – reading
- Give sts supplement containing the reading
passage
- Instruct sts do Activity 1
- Listen
Mental Illnesses
There are many times when someone suffering
from either mental illness or depression may
not even realize there is a problem. I have


suffered from depression myself. I was
completely unaware of what was wrong with
me, my family doctor pointed it out to me, as I
did not have any one else around me that
recognized the symptoms. It was hard for me to
accept at first, but after having the hard facts
placed in front of my face and understanding

that it may get worse, I had no choice but to get
help. A lot of people who suffer from such
problems tend to be more alone than anyone
realizes. I suspect that anyone who was
unaware of their condition would probably be
shocked, as I was, to have someone confront
them about it. A good friend would confront
them anyway, and hopefully they would seek
help.
Activity 1: Answer the questions after
reading the article below.
1. It can be understood from the passage
that --- Read the passage
- Do Activity 1
A) some doctors are unaware of their
patients' problems
B) a lot of people have family doctors
C) mental illness is not a big problem today
D) people cannot easily realize their own
mental illnesses
E) we have a lot of choices to become
healthy
2. Someone who is suffering from either
mental illness or depression ----.

A) should go to his family doctor
B) may give damage to other people
C) has to find his friends to talk about it
D) will one day realize everything if he

wants
E) generally isn't aware of the condition
3. The author seems to be suggesting that
----.

A) large families generally have a family
doctor
B) we cannot be aware of how much these
ill people suffer

- Answer
- Comment
- Listen and take note
* Answer:
1. D
2. E
3. C

C) the people who are suffering from
mental illness should go to doctors
D) everybody can easily accept their illness
E) there are a lot of people in our society
who are suffering from mental
illness

15’

- Call some sts to get answers
- Ask other sts to comment

- T give feedback
Activity 2. Read the text and choose the
most suitable word to fill in
- Ask sts to work in pairs to do the exercise
Our Health
When we are ill, we call a (1)
…………………………, and he examines us and
diagnoses the illness. When we have a
headache, a stomach ache, a sore throat, a cold
or a pain in some parts of the (2)
………………………., we call a doctor. He (3)
………………..our temperature and our pulse. He
examines our heart, our lungs, our stomach or
the part where we have pain, and tells us what
the (4)………. is with us. The doctor prescribes
medicine, and gives us a prescription, which we
take to the (5)……….. , who makes up the
medicine.

- Work in pairs
- Do the task

- Give answer
- Listen and note down
Keys:
1. doctor
2. body


3’

- Call sts to give answer
- Feedback
Homework
- Learn by heart new words

3. measure
5. chemist’s

4. Matter